Tea-pot



(N0 Model.)

N. PLYMPTON.

TBA PUT.

, NITE STATES ATENT OFFICE NATHANIEL PLYMPTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TEA-POT.

SPECIIICATION forming part: of Letters Patent N0, 299,848, dated J'une 3, 1884. Application filed November 26, 1883. (N0 model.)

T0 all w7wm it may'concern:

Be it known that I, NA'IHANIEL PLYMLP- TON, 0f Boston, in the county of Suft0lk, 0f the State cf Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tea-Pots; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, cf which Figure 1 is a side view, Fig. 2 a front e1e-- vation, and Fig. 3 a transverse section, 0f a tea-pot and its stand provided with my invention, the nature cf which is defined inthe elai1ns hereinafter prescnted. Figs. 4 and 5 are hereinafter described.

My said invention relates 130 tea-pots having stands 110 support them, and t0 admit cf their being tipped thereon, i'0r the purp0se 0f discharging a portion of their liquid contents into a cup 01 vessel; and my invention re1ates n10re especially t0 such tea-p'ots, having their bodies cf crockery, china, er earthenware. 'Ihe base 0f the stand usually supports a 1amp p1aced 0n it concentri'cally t0 heat the tea-pots.

In the drawings, the tea-pot b0dy is shown at B and its stand at A. The stand'is c0m p0sed 0f a circular base, a, and the tw0 curved p0sts, b b. These 'posts are adapted t0 the base, so as t0 be adjustable thereon nearer t0 01 farther fron1 each other. F01 this purpose there is at the foot 0f eaeh post, a screw, c,which extends through a sl0t, d, made diametrically in the base, and has a nut, e, screwed upon it, a washer, f, first being p1aced 0n the screw. Furthermore, two eurved arms, g g, provided with sh0rt upward projections h h, extend fr0m the tw0 posts and lap together near their inner ends. At the 1aps there is in one 0r each cf the said arms a s1it, z. A serew, k, is extended through such slit, and the tw0 arms and a nut, Z, serves with the nut t0 hold 01' bind the arms together, and with them to connect the two posts. The projections h are stops 130 prevent the tea-pot body from being tilted backward. Near their upper ends the tw0 posts have bearings, as usual,

t0 sn'stain the ears m m 0f the tea-pot. By

making the bodies 0f crockery or earthen Ware they Will vary somewhat in size, and

therefore t0 properly adapt the stand t0 such abody, in order for it to ope1ate 130 advantage thereon, the stand is made With its posts adjustable, and provided with arms lapped on each other slotted in manner and Screwed together by means as described.

The tea-pot handle is repnesented at C, it being screwed to and sustained by two curved wire standards, D D, each 0f Which consists 0f a piece 0f wire bent at its midd1e and twisted together and otherwise bent in manner as represented in Fig. 4, which is a perspective view 0f it. At its two ends it is hooked, as shown at n u, 130 enter the upper ears, 0 o, 0f the tea-p0t body, holes being made in the ears t0 receive eyelets p, int0 which the hooks 0f the standard are insented. These eyelets, by being tapering, fit firmly in the holes and ad- 1nit 0f the hooks fitting c10sely int0 them-the said eyelets. Asthe h01es generally vary in size, the eyelets are used t0 produce a close fit cf each cf the handle-standards t0 the ear. Fig. 5 is a section through the ear and standa1d and the eye1ets thereof. Bach Standard is held in connection with its ear by a c1asp, r, bent 01 hooked ar0und the tw0 brancheS 0f the Standard, the rear clasp having extended fron1it over and upon the cover, in manner as represented, a finger, s, 01 what is terme d the cover-guard, which, when the cover' 1s in place in the mouth 0f the body, seWes 110 kecp the c0ver from falling out of 0r oft the body, while the 1atter n:1ay be in the act 0f being tilted or turned downto discharge liquid fron1 the nose t.

I d0 not herein c1aim a teapot 0r its stand having appliances as represented in the United Stabes Patent N0. 120,945, as such d0es not have posts applied t0 abase so as to be adjustable thereon, and provided 110t on1y with means 0f clamping them thereto, but with slotted and curved anns 1apping 0n each other, and provided with means 0f clamping them t0 eaeh otheras in 1ny invention.

base with the posts adjustable 0n the latte1, and provided with means f0r clamping the1n thercto, and with tw0 slotte d and curved arms lapping 011 euch 0ther, and having devices for clamping then1 together, all substantially as set f0rth.

l. 'lhe eombination 0f the tea-pot, and the v IOO ing perfomted ezurs, as described,wibh the handle 2md its 0W0 hooked wire standards, the elasps applied thereto, a11d the guiud projected from 011e 0f such clasps, all being sub stantially as seb forth.

NATH. PLYMPTON. 

